KIERAN EGAN

(H/B) INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND THE CURRICULUM
This book describes four 'layers' or stages of education - Mythic, Romantic, Philosophic and Ironic and shows how children at each stage most effectively learn, and how they can be helped towards educational maturity. While drawing on a wide range of philosophical and psychological literature, this new theory is primarily constructed from close observation of children in their common and intense imaginative engagements, and in everyday educational practice. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) IMAGINATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
Young people learn most readily when their imaginations are engaged and teachers teach most successfully when they are able to see their subject matter from their pupils' point of view. It is, however, difficult to define imagination in practice and even more difficult to make full use of its potential. In this original and stimulating book, Kieran Egan, winner of the prestigious Grawemeyer award for education in 1991, discusses what imagination really means for children and young people in the middle years of schooling and what its place ...
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